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In:Approaches to Interlinguistics and Esperanto Studies
Edited by Ilona Koutny and Nicolau A. Dols Salas
[Studies in World Language Problems 12] 2027
► pp. 236–256

Chapter 16
Quantitative syntactic analysis of Esperanto

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Materials and methods
  • 3.Results and discussion
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Author queries
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • Bibliography
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